Deep freeze grips parts of U.S. this week

Moenae Sullivan, 15, of Phillisburg, N.J. is colorfully bundled up as she walks home from Phillipsburg High School Wednesday afternoon Jan. 23, 2013. A cold wave with sub-zero temperatures was expected to keep its icy grip on much of the eastern U.S. into the weekend. (AP Photo/The Express-Times, Sue Beyer)

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Grace Torres, of Costa Rica photographs the partially frozen Delaware River Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, near Trenton, N.J. Polar air has settled in earnest over the Northeast after trekking through the Midwest, grinding trains to a halt, bursting pipes and bringing further misery to folks still trying to recover from Superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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Erin Leighton sips a coffee while seated next to a frost-covered window at a coffee shop, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, in Portland, Maine. An arctic cold front with sub-zero temperatures continues to grip the region. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

A barge motors through arctic sea-smoke on its way out of Portland Harbor, where the temperatures at sunrise was about minus 5 degrees Fahrenheit, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, in Portland, Maine. A stubborn cold front continues to grip the region. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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A deer stands on its hind legs to get the seeds in a bird feeder while another deer grazes on bird seed on the ground, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, in Weston, Wis. North central Wisconsin like much of the upper midwest is caught in the coldest temperatures of the season. (AP Photo/The Wausau Daily Herald, )

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Ashton Dustin, 7, pulls his sled up a hill in Grafton Village in Stafford county, Va. Residents of the Fredericksburg region woke up to a blanket of snow covering the ground on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/The Free Lance-Star,Reza A. Marvashti)

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Jon Gilbert, of the Portsmouth, N.H. water department, steams a frozen hydrant in Portsmouth, N.H., Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013. Temperatures in New Hampshire hovered close to single digits, with wind chill temperatures going below zero for most of the day. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

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A cross country skier works through several inches of freshly fallen snow Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, at Riverview Park in St. Joseph, Mich.(AP Photo/The Herald-Palladium, Don Campbell)

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People walk past a mural painted on the side of a building in Boston, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013. The National Weather Service says it's not expected to get above 17 degrees in Boston, with the wind chill making it feel five below. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

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The water flows through gaps in a frozen waterfall on Plum Creek in Olmsted Falls, Ohio Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. A deep freeze continues across the midwest and northeast with temperatures forecast to remain below freezing in northeast Ohio until early next week. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

An Amtrak Acela passenger train crosses a bridge over the partially frozen Delaware River Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, near Trenton, N.J. Polar air has settled in earnest over the Northeast after trekking through the Midwest, grinding trains to a halt, bursting pipes and bringing further misery to folks still trying to recover from Superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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Trevor Pearson of Minneapolis didn't let sub-zero temperatures and flying ice chips stop him as he used a tool to carve an ice sculpture at Rice Park as part of the crashed ice race promotion and St. Paul's Winter Carnival, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013 in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

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Fog gathers over Lake Winnebago during a stretch of bitter cold weather Tuesday Jan. 22, 2013, in Menasha, Wis. The upper Midwest is in a third straight day of bitter cold temperatures. (AP Photo/The Post-Crescent, William Glasheen )

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A thermometer shows the temperature as a man walks to a parking garage during the cold winter weather in Buffalo, N.Y., Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

Satoria Ginn, left, throws snow at Desiree Lyons during a snow battle Thursday morning Jan. 24, 2012, along Laurel Street in Pocomoke City, Md. The snow was very dry making snowballs hard to make, so they settled for throwing snow at each other. (AP Photo/The Daily Times, Grant L. Gursky)

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A skier heads downhill near a chairlift during early evening skiing at Bradford Ski Area in Haverhill, Mass. Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. Temperatures dipped into the single digits in the region Thursday. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

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Ice-encrusted Dennis Ring, of the Middleton Fire Department, works at the scene of a four-alarm fire in a brick business building in Lawrence, Mass. Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. No injuries were reported according to authorities on the scene. Temperatures dipped into the single digits in the region Thursday. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Steam rises from a pedestrian on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013 in Barre, Vt. The National Weather Service said states from Ohio through to the far northeast of Maine could expect to be slammed by an Arctic blast on Wednesday.(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

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The sun is seen through billowing steam that is being released from an office building on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, in Albany, N.Y. A polar air mass trekked from the Midwest into the region on Wednesday, prompting the National Weather Service to issue wind chill warnings across upstate New York and northern New England. The coldest weather was expected Wednesday and Thursday, after which conditions should slowly moderate before returning to normal, said John Koch, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service regional headquarters in Bohemia, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

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Attorney Anna Hammond of Frederick County, Va. shovels snow from the sidewalk in front of her East Boscawen Street office in Winchester, Va. Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. A fast moving clipper system combined with an entrenched blast of arctic air to bring an inch of snow to the Winchester, Va. area during the overnight hours. (AP Photo, The Winchester Star, Jeff Taylor)

A flock of geese huddles to stay warm on a slab of ice enveloped by steam on the Rock River in Watertown, Wis. as arctic air pushes through the Upper Midwest on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. The upper Midwest region is grappling with another day of extreme cold. (AP Photo/Watertown Daily Times, Samantha Christian)

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On one of the coldest days of the year, ice fishermen brave the cold on Bush Lake in Holly, Mich., Wednesday Jan. 23, 2013. A bitter cold snap continues to grip Michigan, forcing school closures and prompting warming centers to extend hours for those most at risk. (AP Photo/Detroit News, Charles V. Tines)

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Ice forms on a stop sign and the side of a burned out warehouse after a fire reignited Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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Ice coats the shoreline along the Delaware Bay in the Reeds Beach section of Middle Township, NJ, Wednesday Jan. 23, 2013. A cold wave with sub-zero temperatures was expected to keep its icy grip on much of the eastern U.S. into the weekend. (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City) (AP Photo/The Press of Atlantic City, Dale Gerhard)

Ice covers the windward side of the Cleveland harbor lighthouse in Cleveland Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. A deep freeze continues across the midwest and northeast with temperatures forecast to remain below freezing in northeast Ohio until early next week. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

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The ice-covered scalloper Nadia Lee returns to port in Fairhaven, Mass., Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. A teeth-chattering cold wave with sub-zero temperatures was expected to keep its icy grip on much of the eastern U.S. into the weekend before seasonable temperatures bring relief. (AP Photo/The Standard-Times, Peter Pereira)